Speaker Alexandre Bassi

Alexandre Bassi is a French type designer and researcher. He holds a master’s degree in type design from the École de Communication Visuelle in Paris, and completed a post-master’s program at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT) in Nancy, France. During these two years of research, he led a project on the development of digital typography for Maya codical hieroglyphs, as part of the Missing Script project, in collaboration with the Script Encoding Initiative, UC Berkeley, and the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany.

His practice is structured around three areas: type design, teaching, and research. It evolves through commissions, the creation of typefaces for foundries and independent designers, as well as self-initiated projects. He also teaches typography and type design. He is currently involved in a multidisciplinary, collaborative project to develop a typeface for Classic Period Maya hieroglyphs, affiliated with the Script Encoding Initiative, UC Berkeley. The project aims to define, shape, and facilitate the encoding of the Classic Maya writing system within the Unicode Standard.”